Comprehensive Report: Healthcare Industry Issues and Solutions

This report addresses the critical issues impacting the healthcare industry. It highlights the significant challenges of staff shortages, particularly among nurses and other healthcare professionals, exacerbated by the aging population and the retirement of baby boomers. The report explores the impact of these shortages on healthcare delivery, including increased workload, stress, and the difficulty in attracting and retaining a millennial workforce with different priorities. It also discusses the rising costs associated with labor, materials, and administration, and the need for innovative strategies, such as those proposed by the World Health Organization, to address these issues. The report emphasizes the importance of understanding and finding solutions for age-related diseases and ensuring the well-being of healthcare professionals to maintain a sustainable and effective healthcare system.

Running head: ISSUE IN HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY
Issue in health care industry
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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To,
The concerned authority
Date:
Address:
Subject: Health care issue
Dear sir/ ma’am,
This is to address that the health care industry is operating under certain amount of
difficulty. The work in the health industry is very critical as it deals with the well-being of so
many individuals. The health care professionals are dealing with intensive stress regularly
and recent trends imply that the work pressure is going to increase in the days to come. The
small clinics to big hospitals, human resource departments of this industry are also feeling the
immense pressure (Petterson, 2015). The main issue of these professionals in this industry is
the staff shortage.
A number of factors are contributing to the problem. The members of the generation
of baby boomers continue to age and thus, their huge numbers create immense workload for
the medical professionals. It is escalating the issue as nurses from the previous generation are
retiring and leaving the workforce in flock (Yee, 2013). The lack of capabilities of the
nursing programs is leading to the non-fulfillment of the growing demand. This shortage is
leading to the differentiation of the employers in order to attract prospective employees. The
challenge is enhancing by shifting more towards a millennial workforce whose priorities
differ from that of predecessors. The baby boomers and the Gen Xers primarily sought
millennial value benefits, competitive compensation and advancement opportunities, which
are, much more than the predecessors (Leiter, Jackson & Shaughnessy, 2009). In rural areas,
the lack of healthcare professionals during a busy season is making it difficult for the
managers to balance the supply of working professionals with the patient load. This includes
the registered nurses, physicians, allied health professionals and imaging technologists. Every
professional is suffering due to the lack of labors and there is no solution to this problem.
There is also a fair increase in the number of unceasing diseases. There are limited graduates
who can take their places in order resolve the problem. There are also not enough programs
that skilled professionals can meet the high demands of the patients. Many graduates still
work extra hours to fulfill these demands. Thus, many professionals are resigning from this
health care industry and joining non-clinical work for bringing a flexible change in their
schedule. This is giving rise to greater shortage of skilled professionals (Trivellas, Reklitis &
Platis, 2013). This is also leading to increase in the cost of labor, material cost, administrative
cost and pharmaceutical costs.
The employers are hiring new set of medical professionals. This should be changed in
order to appeal to their young subordinates. The various strategies of the World Health

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Organization (WHO) in order to foster better health programs and well-being of the patients
should be followed (Omachonu & Einspruch, 2010). The world will have more elderly
people than young people and children. As the length of life of every individual and the
number of old people are increasing, global efforts are required for understanding and finding
solutions to cure these patients and also to prevent such age-related diseases like frailty and
Alzheimer.
The healthcare industry will be highly obliged if these issues are taken care of.
Thanking You
Yours faithfully
Name:
Designation:
Date:

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